A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 46164 Westlake Drive in Sterling, Virginia, as the "Firefighter Trevor Brown Post Office Building".
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill gives the existing U.S. Postal Service facility at 46164 Westlake Drive in Sterling, Virginia the official name "Firefighter Trevor Brown Post Office Building." It also establishes a uniform reference rule: whenever a federal law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other United States record refers to that facility, the reference is treated as referring to the newly named Firefighter Trevor Brown Post Office Building. The measure is a commemorative designation of one existing property. It does not create a new post office, change postal routes or service levels, authorize a construction project, transfer ownership, or appropriate money.
Who Benefits and How
Residents of Sterling, Virginia receive a permanent federal commemoration at a familiar local public facility and a consistent name for that location in federal materials. The family and supporters of Firefighter Trevor Brown benefit from formal national recognition of the honoree through the facility name, while postal customers gain clarity once signs and official references use the same designation.
Who Bears the Burden and How
United States Postal Service facilities staff may need to update exterior or interior signs, facility listings, address directories, and related administrative records to use the official designation. Federal records administrators and map or document maintainers must treat older and future references to the location as references to the new name. Those implementation costs are limited and administrative because the bill sets no separate spending authorization or operational mandate.
Key Provisions
- Requires the Postal Service facility at 46164 Westlake Drive in Sterling, Virginia to be known and designated as the "Firefighter Trevor Brown Post Office Building."
- Provides that references to the facility in federal laws, maps, regulations, documents, papers, and other records are deemed to refer to the "Firefighter Trevor Brown Post Office Building."
- Limits the substantive change to an official commemorative name and corresponding record references; it does not alter postal operations or authorize a new facility.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Designate the U.S. Postal Service facility at 46164 Westlake Drive in Sterling, Virginia as the "Firefighter Trevor Brown Post Office Building" and conform federal references to that name.
Key Policy Areas
Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Designate the U.S. Postal Service facility at 46164 Westlake Drive in Sterling, Virginia as the "Firefighter Trevor Brown Post Office Building" and conform federal references to that name.
Policy Domains
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 46164 Westlake Drive in Sterling, Virginia, as the "Firefighter Trevor Brown Post Office Building".
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Residents of Sterling, Virginia
- Family and supporters of Firefighter Trevor Brown
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- United States Postal Service facilities staff
- Federal records administrators
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Mark R. Warner
D-VA | Primary Sponsor
Legislative Progress
ReportedCommittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security …
Introduced in Senate
Mr. Warner (for himself and Mr. Kaine) introduced the following …
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_facility"
- → U.S. Postal Service facility at 46164 Westlake Drive in Sterling, Virginia
- "the_postal_service"
- → United States Postal Service
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